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  • These boys knock the bejesus out of each other to win the right of becoming a lady caribou's swain during the breeding season.

    Go green before it becomes compulsory | Kevin McKenna 2011

  • She proceeded to tell me about the pictures of American soldiers posing with Afghan civilians that had been shot dead, -- kinda like when you hold a caribou's horns when you've shot it dead.

    Josh Shahryar: Afghanistan: Reflections on the the Kill Team Josh Shahryar 2011

  • Currently at least half of the caribou's range has been impacted by human activities that fragment their forest habitat, and this makes them easy prey for wolves and bears.

    Biodiversity 100: actions for the Americas Guillaume Chapron 2010

  • She proceeded to tell me about the pictures of American soldiers posing with Afghan civilians that had been shot dead, -- kinda like when you hold a caribou's horns when you've shot it dead.

    Josh Shahryar: Afghanistan: Reflections on the the Kill Team Josh Shahryar 2011

  • Having secured an official permit to take the caribou's head out of the territory through the influence of Colonel Snow, the whole party embarked next day on the homeward bound steamer, which leaving Seward, and stopping at Valdez and Cordova, took the "outside passage," for their trip, giving the Scouts for the first time a full taste of the Pacific Ocean.

    The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

  • The Indians, having packed some of the meat for the next day, cut the rest into thin strips, and with the caribou's head, hung them to the branches of trees out of reach of bears, to be called for on their return.

    The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

  • The caribou's powerful limbs pushed out a mighty leap.

    The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

  • Straight ahead was the gleam of water -- water shimmering softly in the starglow, and the sight of it sent a final great spurt of blood through the caribou's bursting heart.

    Baree, Son of Kazan James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • From the broken end of the horseshoe Baree heard the caribou's heavy plunge into water.

    Baree, Son of Kazan James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • From the plain side the leading wolf closed until he was running at the caribou's forelegs.

    The Honor of the Big Snows James Oliver Curwood 1903

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